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CHAPTER 4: RECOMMENDATIONS The following are topics and recommendations for implementing TERA to the transit community 4.1 Organizational Acceptance For transit agencies to incorporate TERA into practice, the tool must first be accepted by the transportation community as an applicable tool for exercising decision making during emergency situations. A mechanism for encouraging organizational buy-in is to inform and obtain upper-level management support at both public and private transit agencies by demonstrating the capabilities and benefits of TERA to save time and training costs, improve personnel performance, and provide realistic simulated training experiences.
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4.2 Financial and Technical Assistance Options Besides organizational acceptance, monetary assistance or technical assistance from government organizations and private associations with similar or complementary missions would create a diversified support stream for long-term sustainment of TERA. Table 5 depicts some potential organizations that may be able to provide short or long-term support.
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week training courses can familiarize users with use of the Scenario Builder tool and best practices for developing customized scenarios. 4.5 System Sustainment For local, state, and regional transit agencies to access and use TERA over the next 5 to 10 years, hardware and software updating needs should be considered.
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